Google APIs are application programming interfaces developed by Google which allow communication with Google Services and their integration to other services.
nginx [engine x] is a HTTP server and mail proxy server written by Igor Sysoev.
Allows a website to define how a page is rendered in Internet Explorer 8, allowing a website to decide to use IE7 style rendering over IE8 rendering.
UTF-8 (8-bit UCS/Unicode Transformation Format) is a variable-length character encoding for Unicode. It is the preferred encoding for web pages.
A canonical link element is an HTML element that helps webmasters prevent duplicate content issues by specifying the "canonical", or "preferred".
Google's hosted library for web fonts. Allows websites to choose and use fonts from a free, wide variety of fonts.